After installing 50% more of his defense over the last two weeks, Jim Knowles is feeling “very comfortable with where we‘re at” as Ohio State winds down preseason camp.
Ohio State’s new defensive coordinator made an eyebrow-raising comment while meeting with the media on Aug. 9 when he said only about 25% of his defense had been installed. Just 13 days later, however, Knowles said he has now been able to teach about 75% of his defensive concepts to his players.
“The players are very open to learning and they want to be great. So that part of it has been exciting, and we've been able to get a lot in. But we're gonna have to start to pare it back and get specific to our opponent.” Knowles anticipates that he will still teach his players some new defensive concepts over the course of the season. For the most part, though, they’ll be operating with what they’ve already learned over the past eight months, with Knowles picking and choosing different concepts to emphasize each week based on how the Buckeyes plan to match up with each opponent.
“I think what Jim's done a really good job of is you have your whole offense or your whole defense, but then you figure out what areas fit the guys that you have. And this is a different group than he had at the previous stop and in previous years. So I think he's recognized some things that maybe he had a little bit differently at Oklahoma State than he has here, and he's tailored the scheme to that, which is great,” Day said Monday.
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